North Carolina)
Stokes County )

The above plan represents a tract of land formerly granted by the State to Michael Houser for four hundred acres on the waters of Muddy or Mill Creek & (Frees?) Creek but on being resurveyed there is only 346 acres found within the bounds as all adjoining are covered by deeds of elder date, 138 1/2 acres of which is laid off for Jonathan Speece.
Beginning at pointers Briggs former corner in Shorts line thence running south on said line 44 chains to a dead red oak old corner, east on the old line crossing a branch of (Frees?) Creek 31 1/2 chains to a chesnut tree old corner, north six & a half chains to a corner of Millers former land continue North in all forty four chains crossing Richmond
old road to a white oak in Briggs line (now Tates) thence west on said line crossing a branch of (Frees?) Creek twice thirty one chains & a half to the Beginning - and Two hundred seven and a half acres for Jacob Wolff. Beginning at Frederick Fiskess former corner (now Speeces at Hickory pointers thence North on the old line thirty four chains to the old corner in Hughs former line, West with said line twenty two chains to a small chesnut & old marked pointers
in Briggs' former line, South on said line twenty three chains to his corner past oak, west on his line fifty chains to a white oak in the N.E. corner of Speeces, south on his line thirty seven chains & a half crossing Richmond old road & a branch of (Fries?) Creek to pointers Millers former corner (now Conrads). East on said line twenty nine chains & a half passing his corner black oak and crossing the said road again & a small branch to a post oak in Fiskess former line (now Speeces)                                                                                                   turn over

then North with said old marked line twenty seven chains to a post oak old mark corner of Fiskess thence East with said old line forty three chains crossing a branch to the Beginning. -

Resurveyed the 8th day of May 1843 by me.

                                                   (S?) Banner, Sur.